THE TIME OF WEDDINGS.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 20800, 20 August 1929, Page 16

THE TIME OF WEDDINGS.

Weddings, of course, mean presents and the racking of brains to think of the gift that is not a mere and. useless repetition of what all the other donors will send. The silversmiths’ catalogues and shops are ransacked; the stores of those who sell natty little gadgets for the car are searched; glass, table linen, clocks and crockery are all discarded, and what can then remain? Mournfully each purchaser goes again down the list and decides on one of the articles so recently and scornfully rejected, : And yet the solution is absurdly simple and at the same time quite unique. There is one form of present adaptable for a married pair of almost any variety of taste, which is at the same time almost certain to be the only one of its kind. The answer is, of course, books! There arc books to suit everybody and at all prices, so that both recipient and donor can be suited—the one by an appeal to his personal prejudices, the other by an easily regulated drain on his purse. And yet, does one ever see books on the table among the other wedding gifts? But why on earth should they not be there? Is it because they do not glitter or sparkle as much as the myriads of unwanted teaspooqs, or is it feared that the cost of such a present is too readily computed? No, we come regretfully to the conclusion that there is only one explanation of this strange phenomenon; that the giving of books has for some unaccountable reason ceased to be fashionable. And even the most modern of young people are apt to cling tenaciously to the dictates of fashion or convention when weddings are in the air. Let those with courage and a desire for originality, therefore, take the matter in hand so that the seal of custom may once more be set on the giving of books on any and every occasion.—Now and Then.